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The Fast Bilateral Solver

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2016-07-25 v2

Abstract

We present the bilateral solver, a novel algorithm for edge-aware smoothing that combines the flexibility and speed of simple filtering approaches with the accuracy of domain-specific optimization algorithms. Our technique is capable of matching or improving upon state-of-the-art results on several different computer vision tasks (stereo, depth superresolution, colorization, and semantic segmentation) while being 10-1000 times faster than competing approaches. The bilateral solver is fast, robust, straightforward to generalize to new domains, and simple to integrate into deep learning pipelines.

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@article{arxiv.1511.03296,
  title  = {The Fast Bilateral Solver},
  author = {Jonathan T. Barron and Ben Poole},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03296},
  year   = {2016}
}
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